Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-4070 - Buffer Errors vulnerability in Mozilla Seamonkey and Thunderbird

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# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
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# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
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  script_cvs_date("Date: 2019/08/02 13:32:21");

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"Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Icedove
mail client, an unbranded version of the Thunderbird mail client. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following
problems :

  - CVE-2008-0016
    Justin Schuh, Tom Cross and Peter Williams discovered a
    buffer overflow in the parser for UTF-8 URLs, which may
    lead to the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA 2008-37)

  - CVE-2008-1380
    It was discovered that crashes in the JavaScript engine
    could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary
    code. (MFSA 2008-20)

  - CVE-2008-3835
    'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered that the same-origin check in
    nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect() could be bypassed.
    (MFSA 2008-38)

  - CVE-2008-4058
    'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered a vulnerability which can
    result in Chrome privilege escalation through
    XPCNativeWrappers. (MFSA 2008-41)

  - CVE-2008-4059
    'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered a vulnerability which can
    result in Chrome privilege escalation through
    XPCNativeWrappers. (MFSA 2008-41)

  - CVE-2008-4060
    Olli Pettay and 'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered a Chrome
    privilege escalation vulnerability in XSLT handling.
    (MFSA 2008-41)

  - CVE-2008-4061
    Jesse Ruderman discovered a crash in the layout engine,
    which might allow the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA
    2008-42)

  - CVE-2008-4062
    Igor Bukanov, Philip Taylor, Georgi Guninski and Antoine
    Labour discovered crashes in the JavaScript engine,
    which might allow the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA
    2008-42)

  - CVE-2008-4065
    Dave Reed discovered that some Unicode byte order marks
    are stripped from JavaScript code before execution,
    which can result in code being executed, which were
    otherwise part of a quoted string. (MFSA 2008-43)

  - CVE-2008-4067
    It was discovered that a directory traversal allows
    attackers to read arbitrary files via a certain
    character. (MFSA 2008-44)

  - CVE-2008-4068
    It was discovered that a directory traversal allows
    attackers to bypass security restrictions and obtain
    sensitive information. (MFSA 2008-44)

  - CVE-2008-4070
    It was discovered that a buffer overflow could be
    triggered via a long header in a news article, which
    could lead to arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-46)

  - CVE-2008-4582
    Liu Die Yu and Boris Zbarsky discovered an information
    leak through local shortcut files. (MFSA 2008-47, MFSA
    2008-59)

  - CVE-2008-5012
    Georgi Guninski, Michal Zalewski and Chris Evan
    discovered that the canvas element could be used to
    bypass same-origin restrictions. (MFSA 2008-48)

  - CVE-2008-5014
    Jesse Ruderman discovered that a programming error in
    the window.__proto__.__proto__ object could lead to
    arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-50)

  - CVE-2008-5017
    It was discovered that crashes in the layout engine
    could lead to arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-52)

  - CVE-2008-5018
    It was discovered that crashes in the JavaScript engine
    could lead to arbitrary code execution. (MFSA 2008-52)

  - CVE-2008-5021
    It was discovered that a crash in the nsFrameManager
    might lead to the execution of arbitrary code. (MFSA
    2008-55)

  - CVE-2008-5022
    'moz_bug_r_a4' discovered that the same-origin check in
    nsXMLHttpRequest::NotifyEventListeners() could be
    bypassed. (MFSA 2008-56)

  - CVE-2008-5024
    Chris Evans discovered that quote characters were
    improperly escaped in the default namespace of E4X
    documents. (MFSA 2008-58)

  - CVE-2008-5500
    Jesse Ruderman discovered that the layout engine is
    vulnerable to DoS attacks that might trigger memory
    corruption and an integer overflow. (MFSA 2008-60)

  - CVE-2008-5503
    Boris Zbarsky discovered that an information disclosure
    attack could be performed via XBL bindings. (MFSA
    2008-61)

  - CVE-2008-5506
    Marius Schilder discovered that it is possible to obtain
    sensible data via a XMLHttpRequest. (MFSA 2008-64)

  - CVE-2008-5507
    Chris Evans discovered that it is possible to obtain
    sensible data via a JavaScript URL. (MFSA 2008-65)

  - CVE-2008-5508
    Chip Salzenberg discovered possible phishing attacks via
    URLs with leading whitespaces or control characters.
    (MFSA 2008-66)

  - CVE-2008-5511
    It was discovered that it is possible to perform
    cross-site scripting attacks via an XBL binding to an
    'unloaded document.' (MFSA 2008-68)

  - CVE-2008-5512
    It was discovered that it is possible to run arbitrary
    JavaScript with chrome privileges via unknown vectors.
    (MFSA 2008-68)"
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For the stable distribution (etch) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1. Packages for
s390 will be provided later.

For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) these problems will be
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For the unstable (sid) distribution these problems have been fixed in
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include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"icedove", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"icedove-dbg", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"icedove-dev", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"icedove-gnome-support", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"icedove-inspector", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"icedove-typeaheadfind", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"mozilla-thunderbird", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"mozilla-thunderbird-dev", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"mozilla-thunderbird-inspector", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"mozilla-thunderbird-typeaheadfind", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"thunderbird", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"thunderbird-dbg", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"thunderbird-dev", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"thunderbird-gnome-support", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"thunderbird-inspector", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;
if (deb_check(release:"4.0", prefix:"thunderbird-typeaheadfind", reference:"1.5.0.13+1.5.0.15b.dfsg1+prepatch080614i-0etch1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_hole(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_hole(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");